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Madison holds trophy as
Marham celebrates the Superleague Championship
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Super League comes to an end with all ups and downs, Mahram wins title
Tony Madison scored 24 points and grabbed 8 rebounds as Mahram
clinched their first ever championship title Wednesday in the Iranian
Super League with a 106-93 win over Saba Battery, the Asian
title-holder. It was the sauce-makers' second win in a row after they
downed Saba 101-93 on Monday. The defending champion Saba Battery played
the first game without the services of French point-guard Makan
Dioumassi who was suffering from an injury. He played 40 minutes in his
team's second challenge. Mahram's Samad Bahrami scored 20 points but had
to leave the court when he received his second technical. Art Long had
left the game earlier when he continued his aggressive play and picked
up his second technical foul.
It came as the coaches of both teams, the bench players and even the
fans seemed to be frustrated with the mistakes of referees and their
inconsistency in calling or not making calls when they should have, in
the last two final games.
'There were several major reasons that stopped us from repeating the
championship this season,' Saba's coach, Mehran Shahintab said, 'we lost
one of our key players, Aidin Bahrami who passed away in a car crash
before the play-offs; also we had to play 3 or 4 games in a week in the
play-offs and finals, due to the squeezed schedule, which made our
players too exhausted.'
Saba Battery suffered from another blow during the play-offs when there
were changes going to happen inside the managerial board.
Meantime, in Isfahan, Kaveh handed Zob Ahan their second loss 74-52 in
the 3rd-place games. Zob Ahan had been defeated 103-94 in the first game
earlier this week.
IRANIAN SUPER LEAGUE 2007-08 FINAL RANKINGS
1- MAHRAM
2- SABA BATTERY
3- KAVEH
4- ZOB AHAN